the trouble with xing et al. is: everyone's there (now, after stops at orkut, myspace and wherever, wandering from site to site like a nomad family joyously leaving their personal information traces in every database like footsteps on the moon; i guess that's what guru negroponte was talking about all the time in the last century), everyone i know.

and i can see that many (but not all) of them really sugarcoat their profiles and professions with amazing passion.

thus, how should i believe the unknown xing user to be more honest? network of trust, yeah right.

Ahoy, ahoi polloi!

Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 8th day of Confusion in the YOLD 3173.

kibo, kibology and the happyweb of 1999.

Women In Art (of morphing).

for the catatonic kind of bloggers: vincent van sock (via b3ta)

coming up next...

will the tag tart become the new tag cloud?

there's no david lynch movie i have seen which i was not able to understand thoroughly.

You know you are in Germany when the weblog of the biggest newscast (Tagesschau Blog) is nominated for the biggest german award in web excellence (Grimme Online Award).

You know you are in Austria when the weblog of the biggest newscast is called "presenter's journal" (Moderatorentagebuch) and nobody gives a sh*t -- although it's around for very much longer than the german sibling.

(Hell yeah, it doesn't allow comments; but that's just to protect Austria from further international sanctions.)

chris jordan: running the numbers.